Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

The right to "liberty" and "pursuit" of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you.

So the question becomes, Daughter of the Dragon, what will you sacrifice? What will you let be taken away so that you, too, can have power?

Unworthy as I am, he allowed me to go to heaven, and I know the next time I go there, I’ll stay.

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

Whether it's Vessaluis, or Nightray, there's no difference! I just want to be friends with you!

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.

Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather against ours.

If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.

I'm not exactly sure how many kids I have, but yes, I do miss them officially, for the record. In case any of them are listening, I love you.

The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.